The wisdom, patriotism, and fidelity of President Lincoln, and his measures for the defense of the nation were approved.
James Blaine: “The wisdom, patriotism, and fidelity of President Lincoln, and his measures for the defense of the nation were approved.”
Editor's note · Context
Blaine praises President Lincoln's leadership and measures taken for national defense during a critical time.
Share
More from James Blaine
Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
If this view of the subject be correct, as I think it is, then the Union must utterly perish at the moment when Congress shall arm one part of the people against another for any purpose beyond that of merely protecting the General…
If it be true that war cannot be declared, nor a system of general hostilities carried on by the Central Government against a State, then it seems to follow that an attempt to do so would be ipso facto an expulsion of such State from the…





